Rain - Fast or slow?

Topic: Will you get hit by more rain drops if you are running or walking?

/discuss

Running.

If you are walking you cover a less area that the drops could be in, say there are 20 drops inside of a 6ft by 3ft rectangle while you are walking it only multiplies so fast, now if you are running you have a chance to break through new barriers and get hit by more drops.

Ever drove in the rain? Notice how it seems like it's raining harder when you're moving rather than stationary?

But if there's wind to rain, and you're in a large storm, there isn't much difference if you stay still, walk, or run, except that if you run you'll get hit by more of the rain.

Walking.

Walking, but I got this from watching Myth Busters.

Rhode Island. Neither a road or an island.


/discuss

Ever drove in the rain? Notice how it seems like it's raining harder when you're moving rather than stationary?

Notice how it seems like small furry animals like squirrels hit a moving car harder than one that jumps on it while parked?

Thanatos likely meant 'heavier', meaning, rain is hitting you more frequently, and not literally 'harder'.

Regardless, aside from any odd weather condition, I'd imagine the difference of whether you get wetter or not depends on if you are moving at a speed faster or slower than the rate at which the rain is falling.

So you'd have to be going fast enough to not get soaked, but slow enough to not get....soaked?

If you're walking uber slow (yes, I said it) then you're gonna get completely drenched. And if you're walking extremely fast, you're going to hit more droplets then intended also. So their must be a mathmatical equation to figure this out...









....Where's MJ?

Well, it was raining outside yesterday, so I decided to walk and run. I still got wet.

Walking, you are in the rain for a longer amount of time...also probably depends on distance you are traveling and weather conditions.